Gosh, how I loved that. It had a slant six in it, and I drove that everywhere and never once, not even once changed the oil. (That was before I became a jet mechanic in the USN, and I knew nothing about cars)
Then years later, for a winter beater while I was going to college, I had a 1968 Dodge Dart, also with the slant six in it...that car was a wonderful beater!
It had a choke problem I just never fixed, because I knew how to start the car-you simply could not give it any gas when starting it or it would flood immediately and irrevocably! But I knew that, and since the car was generally a throw away car (I only paid $250 for it) I couldn't bother myself to fix it.
Well, one day I came out of classes and went over to where I had parked on the side of a road on a hill, and I couldn't find my car. I walked up and down, thinking for sure I parked it there.
Finally, I assumed the emergency brake gave way and the car must have rolled in to the street and been towed away, but when I went to Security, they said no. I remember standing there completely puzzled, and then slowly realized...my car must have been stolen. That piece of crap car...someone stole it!
I got a call from police a few days later saying they found the car and I could go pick it up. When I got to it, I had to hot wire it to drive it away because the ignition had been ripped out.
But the thing that made me laugh was when they took me to the car in the impound lot, I looked in the back seat, and the air cleaner cover and air filter had been thrown in there. The police told me they found the car in the parking lot of a convenience store and I knew immediately and laughed aloud...
The car started just fine when cold. You could give it all the gas you wanted, but when it was hot...NO GAS! They must have stopped to get smokes or something, and when they came out, flooded it immediately. They must have put up the hood, removed the air filter to let the carburetor dry out, then suddenly realized, here they were in a busy parking lot on a busy street, with the hood up on a stolen car...they just left it there and took off!
Hehehe...it was such a beater, I just got some toggle switches and mounted them in the dash, and if you wanted to start the car, flip this switch to make power available, flip this switch to turn on the starter, etc.
LOL, one of the last things we did before that car gave up the ghost was to use a pair of dykes to carve the Boston Bruins logo with the spoked wheel on the hood of that car...may it rust in peace!!!!